Ethereal-users: Re: [ethereal-users] help please.

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From: "R.K. SUBRAMANIAN" <subramanian.rk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 10:22:59 +0530 (IST)
thanx Guy, thanx John for the prompt response.

Guy, What I mean to say is -- I m not able to use the Filter Preferences
in the pop-down menu of ethereal GUI. I am not able to create a new filter
from that option. However, I am able to use filters using the pane below
the hex dump pane. 


regards,
Subramanian

On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Guy Harris wrote:

> > i downloaded ethereal for Red Hat Linux 6.1. I followed the instructions
> > to install it and ethereal ran well. However, I am not able to configure
> > filters.
> 
> What do you mean by "I am not able to configure filters"?
> 
> Do you mean that when you try to specify a capture filter it reports an
> error?
> 
> If so, note that the man page does *not* describe the syntax of capture
> filters, it just says that
> 
> 	     Packet capturing is performed with the pcap library.  The
> 	     capture filter syntax follows the rules of the pcap library.
> 	     This syntax is different from the display filter syntax.
> 
> and later says:
> 
> 	CAPTURE FILTER SYNTAX
> 	     See manual page of tcpdump(8).
>